Reveilles

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Reveilles, Nathan Hoks’ first collection of poems, re-imagines a tempered surrealism for the twenty-first century. Hoks combines dream-like sequences with flashes of reality-in fact, rather than escaping the world for the rich pleasures of dreams, Hoks’ poems often move from the landscape of dreams into a beautiful reality. Lovely and love-struck, these fiercely witty and wildly imaginative poems-including meditations on icicles and a listless oboist with no note for green -manage to transform into love poems before our eyes. Formally various and rhetorically questioning, Hoks’ restless, death-tinged poems keep asking, Why do I suddenly feel so sentient? . Hoks’ speakers like to walk / behind these prop-like thoughts only to recognize they will soon become the up-and-coming moss. Fusing deadpan humor with subtle emotional registers, the laughing angel in this book reminds us: The sky holds nothing to the ground.